Senior Product Manager, Omics Products

Job description

Site Name: London The Stanley Building
Posted Date: Apr 8 2024

At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines.

We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK's scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on "data mechanics"
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talents
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

Onyx Product Management is at the heart of our mission, ensuring that everything from our infrastructure, to platforms, to end-user-facing data assets and environments is designed to maximize our impact on R&D. The Product Management team partners with R&D stakeholders and Onyx leadership to develop a strategic roadmap for all customer-facing aspects of Onyx, including data assets, ontology, Knowledge Graph / semantic search, data/computing/analysis platforms, and multi-omics applications.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Product Manager for our multi-omics products. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing the product strategy of our Omics Workbench to meet internal GSK customers' needs. You will partner closely with the leaders of Onyx's teams along with the verticals under Research Technology, to deliver industry-leading multi-omics products that power downstream consumption of petabytes of business-critical data. You will drive the product roadmap, guide product development initiatives, and ensure the successful launch and adoption of the Omics Workbench. Together, you will facilitate joint planning and execution of the product roadmap, ensuring a balance between strategic development and customer-facing deliverables. You will also play a key role in devising, tracking, and publicizing metrics that measure the impact and performance of Onyx platform products.

In this role you will

• Product Strategy and Roadmap: Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy and roadmap for our multi-omics product portfolio, aligned with Onyx's overall product vision and objectives.
• Customer Understanding: Conduct in-depth customer research, gather customer insights, and engage with customers regularly to understand emerging requirements.
• Product Planning and Definition: Collaborate with stakeholders to define product requirements, features, and specifications based on customer feedback, product vision, and business goals.
• Agile Product Development: Work closely with portfolio and engineering teams in an agile environment to ensure successful and timely delivery of product releases, including prioritization, sprint planning, and backlog management.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with R&D customers, R&D Digital & Tech organization, and Onyx engineering teams to align product strategies, gather input, and drive successful implementation plans.
• Product Launch and Adoption: Lead product launches, ensuring effective communication, training, and support materials to drive successful product adoption and customer satisfaction.
• Product Performance and Optimization: Continuously monitor product performance, collect and analyze data, and drive iterative improvements to enhance product usability, performance, and customer experience.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage with key stakeholders, including senior Technology leadership and customer organizations to provide updates on product performance, roadmap, and future plans.
• Industry Thought Leadership: Stay abreast of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in the omics technology space. Share insights and act as a thought leader within the organization and industry events.

Why you? Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Software Engineering, or related discipline
• Experience working in software engineering, software development, bioinformatics, or product management in the genomics tools space

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Technical Knowledge:
  • Proficiency with modern bioinformatic pipeline development tools such as Nextflow/Nextflow Tower, Snakemake, Git/GitHub, Docker, and CI/CD methodologies.
  • Experience in handling raw omics data and its derivatives, including but not limited to fastq files, pipeline outputs, and transforming them into analytical or application-ready formats.
  • Familiarity with a range of data engineering tools including CloudRun, Spark, and both SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Working knowledge of at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Familiarity with cloud computing environments, including but not limited to GCP (Preferred), Azure, and AWS
  • Experience working in agile software development environments, utilizing tools like Jira and Confluence.
  • Experience with one or more omics pipelines (e.g., RNAseq, GWAS, WGS, etc.).
  • Understanding of metadata management and data governance concepts.
• Experience:
  • Extensive experience in product development and management, focusing on bioinformatics platform/tool products.
  • Demonstrated success in launching and managing high-stakes enterprise engineering products for bioinformatics, data science, AI/ML, and analytics data consumption.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Skills:
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a propensity for making data-driven decisions.
  • Exceptional leadership abilities and a proactive, self-driven approach.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and effectively manage multiple priorities.
  • Proficiency in distilling complex user requirements and translating them into product releases.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 29th April 2024 (COB)

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